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More than 13,000 residents have applied for federal aid, but reconstruction will take months, officials say. There is no official count of how many people have been left homeless.

A group of Israeli mothers, whose sons are fighting in Gaza, is calling to end the war. They hold a minority view, but draw inspiration from a successful protest by Israeli mothers in a previous war.

Colombia's president declared a state of emergency in Mocoa, where at least 200 people are missing after overflowing rivers swept through homes and killed residents while they slept.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Wilbur Lam, a lead investigator assessing COVID-19 diagnostic tests for the U.S. government, about detecting the omicron BA.2 subvariant with rapid tests.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with illustrator and kids book writer Ian Falconer about his new picture book, Two Dogs.

In 1976, Betsy Cornwell's key broke off as she tried to start her car. It was late at night, and she was in an empty parking lot. Someone stepped in.

Louisiana admits it can't protect all its residents from increased flooding. But with no money to buy people out, many vulnerable residents are stuck, struggling to cope.

Former Minnesota Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark are memorialized in a funeral in Minneapolis. They were assassinated in their home June 14 in an attack that shocked the nation.

Just one student who reportedly refused to convert to Islam from Christianity remains in captivity. 110 girls were snatched from their school in northeastern Nigeria on Feb. 19.